Well, folks, it happens every four years or so. The presidential election cycle really brings out the RINOS. I have to state and restate FR's positions more and more frequently, because the true blue RINO types simply cannot stand that a conservative site will not support a gun grabbing, abortionist, homosexualist, big government statist.

Last cycle it was Rudy McRomney. Boy, did we ever catch hell for not supporting the big RINOs of the day. Hundreds of true blue RINO supporters fled grassroots conservative FR in disgust when they couldn't get their way and called us every name in the book on the way out, especially, the Rudy cabal.

Where did it get them? The abortionist/homosexualist Rudy didn't get the nomination. We on FR finally decided to support McCain after he was the last RINO standing and he selected Palin as his running mate, but that will not happen this time. And McCain proved not up to the task anyway. He was far too undependable to make it as a conservative, but he was at least pro-life and pro-family and a war hero and that's why I finally relented and gave my reluctant no other choice endorsement.

But Myth Romney is without a doubt the most leftist, flip-flopping, lying, two-faced politician ever to be nominated by the Republicans. We have the most leftist Democrat ever sitting in the White House which ANY Republican should be able to defeat in a Reaganesque landslide, but in their infinite RINO wisdom, the GOPe pushes the most leftist Republican ever.

Why, oh, why would the GOPe risk it all by pushing for and giving the nomination to a man with Romney's abortionist, homosexualist, gun grabbing, big government statist Keynesian record? Do they have a death wish or are they simply trying to move the goal posts even further to the left? Romney is the grandpappy of ObamaCare for crying out loud. He made ObamaCare possible. ObamaCare gave birth to the grassroots tea party movement. The GOPe has done nothing but torpedo the tea party conservatives when they should have embraced us. Sarah Palin was the best thing to happen for the Republicans party since Reagan and the tea party the best thing in a century. Why would they try to kill us off?

We can take a clue from the Rudy McRomney cabal that left FR last time. They exclaimed on the way out that, "The conservatives have held their boot to the GOP's neck for far too long. Never again will guns, abortion, and the gay agenda be important issues for Republicans."

And now the abortionist/homosexualist/shamnesty Rudy McRomney cabal and the anti Palin RINO crowd have teamed up to come after FR again. They couldn't hack it with their wideawakes wankers for Rudy site or their trueblue RINOs for Romney site, so they are now posting their current anti-FR screeds on facebook and on any blog site they possibly can.

Hell hath no fury like a RINO scorned.

One of the RINO's we're talking about is our old friend Luis Gonzalez. He was a big Rudy pusher and would relentlessly trash any conservative who objected. We eventually had to invite him to leave FR and go with the wankers for Rudy. But it turns out he had a sleeper account on FR called "Lancelot Jones."

He recently registered a mole account on FR called "The Duke of Pearls" where he attempted to post the anti-FR screed pasted below. I pulled it and banned his account(s), but it is the one he's now plastering all over the net aided and abetted by his pal and anti-Palin RINO troll, EveningStar.

By the way, it's telling that Gonzalez in his Lancelot Jones mole persona posted the following quips to FR just a couple of days ago:

"If you can't rely on something at the precise moment that you need it the most, because that thing that you need to rely on is only reliable when the circumstances suit it, then get rid of it."

"If the GOP realizes that "purists" will only supprt the GOP when the Party's candidates meet their test, then it may be best to not count on them at all."

"The lesson that the GOP will probably learn from your scenario, is that it needs to jettison purists once and for all."

So, I guess my pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-small government, pro-gun, pro-liberty constitutional stance makes me a "purist" who must be hated and persecuted and run off the net even though my positions on these causes are exactly the same as the official Republican party platform. Very strange.

Once, a long time ago, if you were an individual seeking reasonable and intelligent political discourse in the Internet, from a right-wing perspective, there were few places as prominent and respected as Jim Robinsons freerepublic.com. The site counted among its members such luminaries as Tony Snow, Barbara Olsen, and Andrew Breitbar; even Robert Bork was rumored to post in FR.

The sites users, known as FReepers, were considerable in number, dedicated, and passionate, and Jim Robinsons conservative brigades were able to launch either spontaneous roadside rallies, or organized nation-wide protests from Texas, to Florida, to Georgia, to Washington DC itself.

It was a FReeper that ended Dan Rathers career.

It was a FReeper that coined the term Sore/Loserman during the Bush/Gore recount wars.

It was a FReeper that posted the first known report of trouble with the Columbia, as it disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana on re-entry.

It was a FReeper that photo-shopped the infamous image of John Kerry standing side-by-side with Jane Fonda in an anti Vietnam war rally.

Those were the Golden Days of Free Republic, but the site shines no longer. Mr. Robinson fails to realize that it was individual members of his forum that brought gravitas to the forum, and not the other way around. To be fair, Robinson created what could very well be the best softweare of its kind, but it was the massive interchange of ideas between members, all driven by the e-wave of the late 20th Century, and the animosity toward the Clinton administration that brought the forum into the spotlight.

Alas, Mr. Robinson convinced himself that the message was the medium, when it was the messengers that raised the medium to glory.

Internet blogs are buzzing with reports of a massive crack up in FR, with anti-Romney sentiment standing toe-to-toe with open anti-Mormon bias, FReepers are abandoning Jim Robinsons burning ship in droves, populating sites like www.gopbriefingroom.com to discuss the chaotic status of Free Republic.

In facebook, exiled FReepers stand amazed at the realization that Free Republic and Daily KOS, bitter Internet blog political ideology enemies, are actually supporting the same candidate for the Presidency this cycle, as FReepers openly support the idea if an Obama win, as such a victory will teach the GOP a lesson.

This post from FReeper Leep

"Crash and burn America. Hopefully, we can rebuild in 10 or 20 or 50 years ?" The signs are visible to even the naked eye.

Check this statement by the sites founder, Jim Robinson, just a few nights ago:

Lastly, were having a bit of changeover on our moderator staff. At least two moderators resigned this afternoon after I flatly refused to rein in a so-called anti-Mormon bigot on FR. In todays Free Republic, no one will be critical of anti-Mormon statements. Jim Robinson once again:

This website considers the Mormon religion as false doctrine. Period. Its nearly impossible to cross the line on criticism of Mitt Romneys Mormonism at a site where the proprietor dismisses the entire religion as a false doctrine.

Robinson, in his refusal to support the GOP ticket seems to understand that he has become a minority within a minority, within a diminishing number of supporters, as he says:

"I doubt there are 10% of the FReepers in agreement with me on this." Ten percent of a rapidly diminishing number of posting members could spell financial troubles for Robinson, as some of the sites most steadfast financial supporters quietly melt into the night.

Then again, even as Free Republic fades into irrelevance, Robinsons legacy lives on in an unintended cottage industry of forums offering refuge to FReepers wishing to distance themselves from Robinson.

As one of the members of The Briefing Room quipped recently:

"The FR meltdown is good for business, people are looking for a sanctuary, and a place where sanity still reigns. Our membership rolls are increasing hourly, and they all come to ask the same question what in the world happened to Free Republic?

Sad thing, that what was once such a great notion will crumble and fall under the weight of such a negative and destructive actions, and that in the end, the great things accomplished by the many, will be dragged down into the mud by the few.

I'm comfortable voting for Ryan and against Obama but I've never found it helpful to castigate those who cannot do so in good conscience. (For one thing, it's not good practice as a Christian to encourage people to violate their conscience!)

My take is pretty simple:

If you can handle supporting Romney/Ryan, do so-

If not, work to support conservative candidates in other races, as JimRob is doing

That purist label is a lie anyway. Conservatives are the ones who have repeatedly compromised for moderates only to be stabbed in the back. Guys like McCain and Graham wouldn’t be where they are if conservatives hadn’t compromised for them and in return conservatives have been repeatedly screwed.

In contrast, George Romney stomped off to pout and refused to endorse or support Barry Goldwater when he won the nomination in 1964.

The purists are the moderates who reserve their compromise for their friends on the left.

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posted on 08/14/2012 2:09:34 PM PDT
by cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)

The GOP is a disgrace to our Country and way of life. They pretend to be conservative but are nothing more than Democrats hiding behind a veil of limp talk. They have the same values as the Dems since they fully believe the citizens are too ignorant to run their own lives and need to be subjugated to the GOP elite whims.

WTF is a RINO these days anyway? The Republican Party has moved Left. That’s a true fact. Why are they doing this? It’s simple. For the past 30 years, industry and government have worked together to ship all the manufacturing jobs out of this country, so a hard-working high school graduate has almost no chance of success.

Then, they conspired to make us all get a degree so we could get a job and now that just gets you in the door for a minimum wage job that a teenager could do in 1975.

If we lived in Conservative Utopia, where would everyone work? The jobs are never coming back. The business owners aren’t going to bring them back and the consumers aren’t willing to pay the high prices for domestic content. Business owners keep demanding more and more work from less and less employees for less money each day, yet they pay the same taxes they paid under Bush (so far). We’ve turned America into a nation for the wealthy elite and the welfare class. There is no room at the table for a working man.

Now, we could lower the standard of living so that our labor costs are low enough to lure jobs back to the US.

And that is EXACTLY what both parties are doing. We are going through a painful contraction of the economy that will end with a large number of Americans permanently on the dole and the rest working like galley slaves to live just a little better than those who live on government checks.

In addition to simply taking money out of our pockets to lower our living standard, they have indoctrinated two generations with global warming, unrealistic body images, and a lifestyle that is unhealthy so that those generations think that every day is armageddon.

Both parties are unwilling to grow the standard of living. They are partners in lowering it. They only differ in the methods and speed of decline.

And that is the big diference. Obama and the Progressive Left want to drive us into a third world lifestyle, raising up the multi-culti peoples as the standard. They want the white middle class punished for past successes in favor of the multi-cultis.

Romney and the Progressive Right want to drive us to European Socialism. That’s not a great place to be, but it gives us a chance of a standard of living that doesn’t include eating our pets.

The “greatest generation” is dying off fast and the Boomers will start dying off soon. Then, the children of the Cold War will die off. The generation after that has been prepared for the hopeless future and they are ready to live the urban survival lifestyle that the future will demand.

Its a bleak, dystopian future, but that’s the way it is. The Conservative is today’s true RINO because the political system has abandoned us as obsolete artifacts of the days of American Greatness. The political parties laugh at our naivete. If you are even a nominal Christian, place your faith in God and give up on the USA. It is dying and political system is feeding it poison as it struggles to live.

From the article: This website considers the Mormon religion as false doctrine. Period. Its nearly impossible to cross the line on criticism of Mitt Romneys Mormonism at a site where the proprietor dismisses the entire religion as a false doctrine.

There are going to be thousands of voters who are curious about mormonism....this is a good advertisement for FR as a site to gather information that is not just propaganda from Salt Lake City.

Welcome in advance, Truth-Seekers! When you get here, just do a site search for users Colofornian, Elsie, greyfoxx39, delacoert,reaganaut and zakeet as the FReepers who have posted much information on mormonism taken directly from the mormon/lds articles, doctrine and leaders. There are many other contributors, but many of the actual threads have been started by the above-named. These threads are providing sourced information on the history of Joseph Smith and the lds church, along with articles on the current state of the religion.

As I said, stand for God. The country and liberty are as good as gone. I’m voting for Romney/Ryan not because I think they’ll save the US, but because they might prolong the death until I’m gone. If we can get a few states to seceed and create a Christian nation, I will go there.

I guess my pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-small government, pro-gun, pro-liberty constitutional stance makes me a "purist" who must be hated and persecuted and run off the net even though my positions on these causes are exactly the same as the official Republican party platform.

That ... plus I'm willing to bet that your willingness to fight for these ideals ... combined with your non-compromising take no prisoners attitude ... causes the establishment RINO's to pee their pants more than just about anything else.

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posted on 08/14/2012 2:30:42 PM PDT
by Zakeet
(If you don't like abortions, don't get one. If I don't like guns, we should ban them.)

Jim...whenever someone takes a moral, principled stand, verses a pragmatic one, they will be persecuted for it. That just makes you a good guy!

IF someone calls me a “purist” for having a basic set of reasonable standards and sticking to them....then I know they are NOT truly conservative...they are only conveinently so.

You are taking a stand when all the others are selling out to Romney’s nonsense. They do this because of fear of Obama. Well, common sense tells one that you don’t fight wrong with wrong. Obama is wrong and Romney is wrong. We don’t have to sell folks on Obama being wrong....it is self evident. However, I find it extremely disturbing that folks cannot see that Romney does not meet minimal standards of acceptability. To vote for him would be to violate one’s personal standards of morality and ethics. At least for a sensible person...like you Jim.

Keep fighting the good fight!

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posted on 08/14/2012 2:33:17 PM PDT
by Sola Veritas
(Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)

Ryan seals the deal for me. I will vote for RR. In the best of circumstances I can see Ryan leading on policy for 8 years of a Romney administration and then taking over for a further 8 years to complete reforms of Supreme Court and the whole DC establishment.
Withholding a vote is a vote for Obama. Voting “present” isn’t an option if you have a concern for the future of your country..If you can vote for Ryan in 2016 or 2020..then should vote for RR now.

“I can see Ryan leading on policy for 8 years of a Romney administration and then taking over for a further 8 years to complete reforms of Supreme Court and the whole DC establishment.”

That is NOT going to happen. Romney will be Romney, just like he was in MASS., and Ryan will just be window dressing and will have zero influence. Romney will surround himself with liberals and his Salt Lake City buddies.

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posted on 08/14/2012 2:37:32 PM PDT
by Sola Veritas
(Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)

Quietly, here in Tennessee, we are weeding the herd. Six of the candidates put up by the TEA Party, who did not live up to their promises, have been primaried out by candidates who we hope will do better. Who knows, Tennessee might join Texas once again if that secession becomes necessary.

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posted on 08/14/2012 2:37:59 PM PDT
by Ingtar
(Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)

When I was growing and developing my worldview and was all gung-ho for Reagan and the GOP, the topics were usually things like fighting the communist tide, a Balanced Budget Amendment, family values, term limits, strong defense, and the like. The GOP sure has devolved since then, and here we have a nominee who supported things from hairbrained cap-and-trade nonsense, socialized medicine, abortion and gay adoption, vocally expressed disdain for the Reagan era, and has had minions viciously trash and undercut the few solid constitutional-conservatives that remain out there.

It just seems so insanely surreal. Sure don’t seem to have a Party reflecting my voice anymore. Sometimes even wonder if there’s much of a country even left worth fighting for anymore. Surreal times.

I was hoping a year ago when candidates were being screened that we wouldn't be put in this situation. I don't understand why we didn't have better conservative candidates to pick from. Palin would have been awesome and would have gotten me fired up; but none of the others that ran had much to offer in my opinion.

I am going to focus on working for lower level more local conservative candidates get elected. City council up to House of Representatives. That's where the real work should be done anyway in my opinion.

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posted on 08/14/2012 2:42:56 PM PDT
by HereInTheHeartland
(Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)

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